Quotes About Technology

Where the road was broken, its edges had cracked and meltd where the Technomancer had pulled her Tower from the earth, interrupting its symmetry.

It should be harder to kill someone. The ease of unblades made their purpose somehow more terrible.

Every plan had its flow. But sometimes, living in the future was damned cool. Even if she couldn't get a rocket car.

My new friend paced alongside on six slender legs, the two deadly looking raptorial manipulators folded against its forethorax, the more delicate ones waving gently in the air.

Eventually, I realized I was wasting my time, and if I wanted to hide from humanity in a bottle, I was better off making it a titanium one with a warp drive and a couple of carefully selected companions.

Hey, it's my job to climb into questionable machines.

That night, he kept activating the readout from his chip on the mobile's login screen: Enfranchised.

Selene smelled the old woman's flesh, acrid electronics, and consistency, and it helped drive the dangerous musk from her nostrils.

Somebody intelligent enough for space flight already lives on Grail.

We were moving fast, but at least we were within lightspeed communication range that wasn't longer than a human lifetime.

They writhed at her wrists, quicksilver loops of nanotech.

It took me a moment to identify the terrible bubbling sound coming over my com as Farweather laughing at me between swallows of blood. I resisted the urge to smash her fucking helmet in, but only barely.

One of the interesting things about programming people of all sorts to be more ethical is that it also makes them more ethical about the limits of programming people to be more ethical.

Enjoy belonging to the machine, babes.

One of the problems with AIs grown from personality seeds is that sometimes they're just as reactive and weird as any human.

Don't you wonder who you'd be without the clade? Without Judicial Recon? Without rightminding?

I don't know how you can walk around in a utility fog that could start disassembling your body anything your Governors decide they're done with you.

Sneaky manipulative bundle of code.

She wondered if the man who had written that clever little technomantic virus still would have done so, if he had known he would be breaking her heart for centuries to come.

I am many things: not a single one of them makes me qualified to troubleshoot or debug or antivirus an AI.

Nanoprocessors along my damaged spinal cord, improving in its functionality; the reflex boast that makes me potentially able to steer this improbable starship.

any tool can also be a weapon of oppression as easily as it can be an implement of construction.

We didn't build House. We just adaptd it, learned how to program it.

We didn't build House. We just adapted it, learned how to program it.